GRAMMAR AND SYNTACTIC DEFICIT IN CHILDREN WITH SPECIFIC DEVELOPMENTAL LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT

Abstract

Specific language disorders include primary speech and language disorder developing in intelligent children without hearing damaged and visible neural damage. Even the fact of grammatical-syntactically deficits as cha­ra­cte­ris­tic of specific language disorders, they are not properly examined. Because of numerous varia­tions in clinical manifestation and expressi­on of specific language disorders, there is need for specific analysis of grammatical-syntactically deficits in children who had diagnoses of speech - language disorders. The aim of study was to analyse the grammatical-syntactically deficits in children who had diagnoses of speech - language disorders according to non- specific EEG changes. Material and methods: The entire sample included 30 patients from the Institute for Psycho - Physiological and Speech Disor­ders “Professor dr. Cvetko Brajovic”. The sample was divided in the two groups by the findings of neurologists. The tests used for spe­c­ific lan­gu­a­ge disorders were: test decrypting of pic­tu­re. The results were processed by methods of des­criptive statistics.  Results:  Based  on  the  descriptive statistical analysis, it was shown that there are differences in the grammatical-syntactic deficits examined groups. Conclusion:Assessment of the grammatical-syntactically abilities compa­red to non-specific EEG changes may have practical importance in specifying of the speech - language disorders and their prognosis.